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...there was no turning back. "The figure of Margaret Thatcher towers over the Falklands drama from its inception to the euphoria of the final triumph," they conclude. "Her single-mindedness, even her arch phraseology ('Defeat-I do not recognize the meaning of the word!'), all seemed to armor her against any suspicion that this might be a dangerous, even absurd, adventure...
...theater or the power of good-vs.-evil allegories, however simpleminded. Here the premise is that Mr. Mister (David Schramm), the boss of Steeltown, U.S.A., is a cigar-chomping tyrant, and his gutsy prole of a foe, Larry Foreman (Randle Mell), is a knight in blue-collar armor. We meet Mister's toadies: mousy Reverend Salvation, sycophantic College President Prexy and craven Editor Daily. As a whore with a heart of tarnished nickel, Lisa Banes is achingly vulnerable, and Michele-Denise Woods keens a militant lament for her injured brother in Joe Worker Gets Gypped...
...good faith, he expressed his readiness to end martial law as soon as the situation in Poland "develops successfully." This, he said, could occur at a "not distant date," though he would not be more precise. Jaruzelski gave the Pope two gifts: a breastplate of hussar's armor, from the battle in which Polish troops helped end the Turkish siege of Vienna exactly 300 years ago, and a painting of the Tatra Mountains, in which John Paul enjoyed hiking when he was Archbishop of Cracow...
...them in primaries, winning over delegates. That takes time. For the voter, sizing up the candidates also takes time: figuring out how they think and decide, their intelligence, temperament, imagination." At the same time, notes Ajemian, "because public life is so battering these days, a candidate's psychological armor has to be very thick. As a result, political image making has reached new levels of skill and manipulation, emphasizing the candidates' strengths and covering their weaknesses. The task is to identify both the candidate and the real person. We can't learn too much about future Presidents...
...Dead Soldier by an unknown Neapolitan hand (all attributions having failed so far), which inspired Manet's Dead Toreador. The painting is a link between Caravaggio's shadow-theater and, through Salvator Rosa, the world of 19th century romanticism. It shows a young man in half-armor lying stiff and composed on the floor of a cave (some mountain charnel-house, perhaps) surrounded by rainy twilight and the glimmer of bones, with a curl of smoke still issuing from an extinguished votive lamp. A vanitas? A more personal lamentation? Impossible to say; yet there is more real feeling...